Songs
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
Audio and lyrics for songs featured on A Prairie Home Companion.
When love is lost
Nothing to say
Except the sun and stars have moved away
And life will never be so fine so fabulous miraculous
And you may never dance again.
I don’t think I’ll use your drive-up window
I believe I would rather stand in line
I feel like I need some up-close contact
With these fellow human beings of mine
As I went a-walking one morning in May,
I met a young couple who were coming my way,
And one was a young maid so sweet and so fair,
And the other was a writer, you could tell by his hair.
Back when Elvis was alive
And coffee didn’t cost three ninety-five
Back then there was no internet
Google hadn’t been invented yet
I made breakfast this morning,
Oatmeal and fresh fruit
And saw a story in the paper
Said oatmeal’s in disrepute
Oh we had a lovely party in Lake Wobegon last night
Everyone was there with their faces shining bright
We don’t all like each other and yet we reunite
At the Sons of Knute Christmas dance and dinner.
Way back in our student days
Hanging out in cheap cafés
Pretending we were Hemingways in exile in Montmartre
The books we’d write that would never sell
And the best revenge in living well
And the only way to live is from the heart.